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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Video: Mont-Blanc Project Advances HPC for TermoFluids
In this video, Ricard Borrell from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center describes how the Mont Blanc Project Industrial End User Group on TermoFluids is advancing...
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New Paper Surveys Cache Partitioning Techniques
A new paper from IIT Hyderabad in India surveys cache partitioning techniques for multicore processors. Now accepted in ACM Computing Surveys 2017, the survey by...
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Interview: XTREME DESIGN Automates HPC Cloud Configurations
Tokyo-based Startup XTREME DESIGN recently announced it has raised $700K of funding in its pre-series A round. Launched in early 2015, the Startup’s XTREME DNAInterview...
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Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at University of Oxford
"Would you like to help manage and develop a state-of-the-art High Performance Compute (HPC) facility to enable cutting-edge biomedical research? This is an exciting...
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Podcast: IBM Researchers Store Data on a Single Atom
Today IBM announced it has created the world’s smallest magnet using a single atom – and stored one bit of data on it. Currently, hard disk drives use about 100...
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Introduction to GPUs in HPC
"This video is from the opening session of the "Introduction to Programming Pascal (P100) with CUDA 8" workshop at CSCS in Lugano, Switzerland. The three-day course...
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Nvidia Brings AI to the Cloud with the HGX-1 Hyperscale GPU Accelerator
Today, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Ingrasys announced a new industry standard design to accelerate Artificial Intelligence in the next generation cloud. "Powered byNvidia...
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How GPU Hackathons Bring HPC to More Users
"GPUs potentially offer exceptionally high memory bandwidth and performance for a wide range of applications. The challenge in utilizing such accelerators has been...
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Compressing Software Development Cycles with Supercomputer-based Spark
"Do you need to compress your software development cycles for services deployed at scale and accelerate your data-driven insights? Are you delivering solutionsCompressing...
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Call for Applications: Women in IT Networking at SC17 (WINS)
SCinet at SC17 has issued its Call for Applications for the Women in IT Networking (WINS) program. The WINS program is currently seeking qualified women U.S. candidates...
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IBM to Build Commercially Available Quantum Computing Systems
"IBM has invested over decades to growing the field of quantum computing and we are committed to expanding access to quantum systems and their powerful capabilities...
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Video: Scientific Visualization with Python
In this video, Dr. Marcelo Ponce from SciNet presents: Scientific Visualization with Python. "SciNet is Canada’s largest supercomputer centre, providing Canadian...
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Call for Submissions: OpenMPCon & IWOMP at Stony Brook University in New York
This year, the OpenMP Architecture Review Board is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first OpenMP API specification with a pair of events: OpenMPCon and the...
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Re-Architecting Spark For Performance Understandability
"This talk will describe Monotasks, a new architecture for the core of Spark that makes performance easier to reason about. In Spark today, pervasive parallelism...
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PEARC17 Extends Technical Paper Submission Deadline to March 13
Today the PEARC17 conference extended their Technical Paper Submission Deadline to March 13, 2017. Formerly known as the XSEDE Conference, PEARC17 will take place...
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Horst Simon to Present “Supercomputers and Superintelligence” at PASC17 in Lugano
Today PASC17 announced that Horst Simon will present a public lecture entitled “Supercomputers and Superintelligence” at the conference. PASC17 takes place June...
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Using HPC in a Cohort Study of the Health Effects of Handgun Ownership in California
In this video from the 2017 HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference, Yifan Zhang from Stanford presents: Using HPC in a Cohort Study of the Health Effects of Handgun...
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Exascale Computing Project Selects Co-Design Center for Graph Analytics
The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has selected its fifth Co-Design Center to focus on Graph Analytics — combinatorial (graph) kernels that play a crucial enabling...
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Dr. Alfred Geiger to Keynote Industrial Day at ISC 2017
Today ISC 2017 announced that the conference Industrial Day on June 20 will feature keynotes by Dr. Alfred Geiger of T-Systems. With a day-long program, Industrial...
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